2016 Kremlin Cup
# 2016 Kremlin Cup

The 2016 Kremlin Cup (also known as the 2016 VTB Kremlin Cup for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 27th edition of the Kremlin Cup for the men and the 21st edition for the women. The tournament was part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2016 ATP World Tour, and of the Premier series of the 2016 WTA Tour. It was held at the Olympic Stadium in Moscow, Russia, from 17 October through 23 October 2016.

On 15 October, a record high of 4800 people visited the qualifying rounds; according to Tarpishchev, in no other tennis tournament was that number so high.

## ATP singles main-draw entrants

### Seeds

| Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
| - | - | - | - |
| ESP | Roberto Bautista Agut | 19 | 1 |
| ESP | Albert Ramos Viñolas | 27 | 2 |
| GER | Philipp Kohlschreiber | 30 | 3 |
| SRB | Viktor Troicki | 31 | 4 |
| SVK | Martin Kližan | 33 | 5 |
| ESP | Pablo Carreño Busta | 35 | 6 |
| ITA | Paolo Lorenzi | 37 | 7 |
| RUS | Andrey Kuznetsov | 42 | 8 |
| ESP | Marcel Granollers | 43 | 9 |

* Rankings are as of October 10, 2016

### Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

* Cem İlkel
* Karen Khachanov
* Konstantin Kravchuk

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

* Alexander Bublik
* Aslan Karatsev
* Daniil Medvedev
* Jürgen Melzer

The following player received entry as a lucky loser:

* Federico Gaio

### Withdrawals

**Before the tournament**

* Bernard Tomic →replaced by Evgeny Donskoy
* Jiří Veselý →replaced by Lukáš Rosol
* Martin Kližan →replaced by Federico Gaio

### Retirements

* Marcel Granollers
* Aslan Karatsev
* Mikhail Kukushkin

## ATP doubles main-draw entrants

### Seeds

| Country | Player | Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| ESP | Pablo Carreño Busta | ESP | Marcel Granollers | 52 | 1 |
| COL | Juan Sebastián Cabal | COL | Robert Farah | 60 | 2 |
| ARG | Guillermo Durán | POL | Mariusz Fyrstenberg | 119 | 3 |
| NED | Wesley Koolhof | NED | Matwé Middelkoop | 119 | 4 |

* $^1$ Rankings are as of October 10, 2016

### Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

* Evgeny Donskoy / Teymuraz Gabashvili
* Daniil Medvedev / Andrey Rublev

### Withdrawals

**During the tournament**

* Marcel Granollers

## WTA singles main-draw entrants

### Seeds

| Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
| - | - | - | - |
| RUS | Svetlana Kuznetsova | 8 | 1 |
| SVK | Dominika Cibulková | 10 | 2 |
| ESP | Carla Suárez Navarro | 12 | 3 |
| UKR | Elina Svitolina | 15 | 4 |
| RUS | Elena Vesnina | 19 | 5 |
| CZE | Barbora Strýcová | 20 | 6 |
| RUS | Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova | 21 | 7 |
| RUS | Daria Kasatkina | 24 | 8 |
| HUN | Tímea Babos | 26 | 9 |

* Rankings are as of October 10, 2016

### Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

* Anna Kalinskaya
* Svetlana Kuznetsova

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

* Anna Blinkova
* Nicole Gibbs
* Kateřina Siniaková
* Lesia Tsurenko

The following player entered as a lucky loser:

* Ana Konjuh

### Withdrawals

**Before the tournament**

* Sara Errani →replaced by Anastasija Sevastova
* Karolína Plíšková →replaced by Shelby Rogers
* Monica Puig →replaced by Danka Kovinić
* Dominika Cibulková →replaced by Ana Konjuh

**During the tournament**

* Anna Blinkova

### Retirements

* Carla Suárez Navarro

## WTA doubles main-draw entrants

### Seeds

| Country | Player | Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| RUS | Ekaterina Makarova | RUS | Elena Vesnina | 15 | 1 |
| CZE | Andrea Hlaváčková | CZE | Lucie Hradecká | 25 | 2 |
| CZE | Kateřina Siniaková | SLO | Katarina Srebotnik | 60 | 3 |
| AUS | Anastasia Rodionova | UKR | Olga Savchuk | 100 | 4 |

* $^1$ Rankings are as of October 10, 2016

### Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

* Anna Kalinskaya / Olesya Pervushina
* Natela Dzalamidze / Veronika Kudermetova

## Champions

### Men's singles

* Pablo Carreño Busta def. Fabio Fognini, 4–6, 6–3, 6–2

### Women's singles

* Svetlana Kuznetsova def. Daria Gavrilova, 6–2, 6–1

### Men's doubles

* Juan Sebastián Cabal / Robert Farah def. Julian Knowle / Jürgen Melzer, 7–5, 4–6, [10–5]

### Women's doubles

* Andrea Hlaváčková / Lucie Hradecká def. Daria Gavrilova / Daria Kasatkina, 4–6, 6–0, [10–7]
